Tag: Behavior
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WordPress Security 101
Running several WordPress sites, especially ones that gather a lot of welcome and unwelcome visitors, is a crash course in security. I’ve been using WordPress since version 1.2, where hacks were much more common, and thankfully have only been hacked once *touch wood*, back in the 1.5 days. For those not part of the WordPress…
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Homophobic and Transphobic hate crime on the rise world wide
I missed this report from UN’s Navi Pillay from May, but worrying the trend for homophobic and transphobic hate crime across the world is rising…I heard about this via the Metro’s excellent piece about being transgender in Latin America where the majority of the world’s transgender murders are occuring…although I was heartened by the statistic…
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It Gets Better – video from me
Talking about gay bullying and my experience of bullying and suicide as part of the It Gets Better project by Dan Savage (but sadly he’s exceeded the favourites for the channel!). It’s a great idea in response the sad and ever-present suicides of gay teens- something like 3 times the UK average here, depressingly… and…
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Alice smoking on the dro
But I wish I’d made this one… Apparently done for a course where “The assignment was to make a 3 minute maximum video comprised of appropriated footage and audio.” – I need to do a course like that, I would SO ace that one!
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This one goes out too all the pedants out there
(from xkcd). You know who you are. And have already spotted the intentional pedant-bait, although not the trap within. *SNAP*!!! Too late. Oh dear, one less pedant in the world, how we must suffer their/there/they’re loss 😛
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Still NO to Prop 8! You can’t amend me!
Voting is November 4th I believe, if you’re going down to Cali (cos you live there!), please vote ‘No’. Oh and one little thing, if you’re in the US vote for this man, otherwise a kitten cries. He’s your only hope, and you know it. And partly mine, because it’s not all separate anymore: Oh…